Education - Higher

Extremism, antisemitism and intolerance are thriving on campus. How did this happen?"Some programmes are well on their way to running Zionists out of their unit. That will put an end to complaints of antisemitism." --Cary NelsonAfter October 7, the university - an institution dedicated...

Welcome to the world of university academics, where the Academic Hunger Games, fuelled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality - a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life needn't...

Using Generative Artificial Intelligence as a student can be confusing and challenging. This authoritative guide equips you with practical knowledge, enabling you to leverage Generative AI as a powerful study aid and embark on your academic journey with confidence. Exploring a wide spectrum of...

This three-volume set provides a comprehensive survey of the first decade of Cornell University's existence. It includes articles, photographs, and histories of different aspects of the university, including its founding and construction, notable faculty and alumni, and student life.This work has been selected by...

This text aims to provide university lecturers with practical guidelines for the effective teaching and assessment of students. The topics discussed include course planning and preparation, delivery and presentation, classroom management, student feedback and much more.Author: Bill CoxISBN-10: 0749411104ISBN-13: 9780749411107Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1994Pages: 174Format:...

The essential guide to the AAUP's recommended policies and best practices for higher education, now in its twelfth edition.For the past century, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), long viewed as the authoritative voice of the academic profession, has developed gold standards for...

This incisive work explores the multifaceted struggles of graduate students, confronting burnout, political complexity, and societal crises like COVID-19 epidemic, racism, homophobia, transphobia, patriarchy, white supremacy, xenophobia, and ableism. The mass exodus of workers during the Great Resignation in the United States left many...

This edited volume is the first to exclusively feature the work of doctoral graduates themselves. Critical Perspectives on Educational Policies and Professional Identities offers an important example of doctoral study within the field of education policy, emphasising the impact and transferability of findings across...

Peer Coaching is a collaborative, reciprocal practice where faculty members observe, reflect, and improve their instructional practices with the goal of improved learning for all students. This edited book includes chapters describing faculty peer coaching initiatives in universities world-wide. Section one includes chapters that...

Black Faculty Do It All: A Moment in The Life of a Blackademic is a work that creates space for Black academics or Blackademics to share their experiences navigating workspaces within higher education and their experiences as Black professionals. The primary goal of this...

This work presents a composite view of medieval English university life. The author offers detailed insights into the social and economic conditions of the lives of students, their teaching masters and fellows. The experiences of college benefactors, women and university servants are also examined,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Co-creation of learning and teaching, where students and staff collaborate to design curricula or elements of curricula, is an important pedagogical idea within higher education, key to meaningful learner engagement and building positive student-staff relationships. Drawing on literature from schools' education, and using a...

Critical Race Theory in the Academy explores the deep implications of race and its effects on the expanse of the American social fabric and its fragile democratic process. This volume contributes to a more effective, powerful, and insightful theorization of racism across the social...

Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the market, mean that academics and students are increasingly alienated from themselves and their work. This...

A devastating analysis of what is happening to our academia In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects to nearly...

Generation Debt offers a truly gripping account of how young Americans are being ground down by low wages, high taxes, huge student loans, sky-high housing prices, not to mention the impending retirement of their baby boomer parents. Twenty-four-year-old Anya Kamenetz examines this issue from...

The book ""Monsignor Joseph Jessing 1836-1899: Founder Of The Pontifical College Josephinum"" written by Leo F. Miller is a comprehensive biography of Monsignor Joseph Jessing, who was a Catholic priest and the founder of the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio. The book provides...

In Beyond Alternative Teacher Education, John Watzke and his fellow contributors present a bold vision for teacher education that moves the dialogue into new realms of inquiry. Pairing teacher reflective narratives with scholarly chapters, the volume presents the case for programs of teacher formation...

In the emerging field of intercultural competence, this book is one of the first to propose a pedagogical framework and provide both the theory and tools to implement it. With the increased focus on educating students to be global citizens, Learning through a PRISM...

As the country becomes increasingly diverse, new issues arise within the American educational system. This book examines the effects of underrepresentation of African Americans in colleges and universities. It also discusses the challenges facing Blacks trying to get into the academy and issues that...

The University of Rhode Island is an in-depth pictorial history of URI that covers the periodbeginning with its inception as a college in 1892 to the term of its current president. Settled in the rural village of Kingston, where a rolling hillsidehas evolved into...

Being a PhD student is not easy. Navigating the highly competitive world of academia while working hard for little or no pay would be stressful for anyone--but it's especially challenging for graduate students who are also parents. Featuring contributions from more than forty current...

Being a PhD student is not easy. Navigating the highly competitive world of academia while working hard for little or no pay would be stressful for anyone--but it's especially challenging for graduate students who are also parents. Featuring contributions from more than forty current...

Why struggle over the rough paths of your engineering career when you can take a shortcut and enjoy the ride? Make money, have an adventure, and get real-world experience. Conquering Your Engineering Internship is the only guide to internships and co-ops that students in...

A transformative guide to fostering inclusive academic leadership through liberation psychology and systemic change.In Leading Toward Liberation, Annmarie Ca?o reimagines academic leadership as a practice rooted in liberation and equity. Drawing on her experiences as a Latina, first-generation college student, clinical psychologist, and higher...

Today's research scholars face the problem of how to effectively navigate the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) while maintaining ethical integrity and scholarly rigor. AI technologies have permeated every aspect of scholarly inquiry, from information retrieval to research methodologies. As such, scholars grapple...

Neoliberal theory on higher education highlights the challenges faced by academics in the "new times" of academia. Quality-improvement programs and academic accountability mechanisms have been advocated, but the profession's precariousness and stress make early career researchers especially vulnerable. The highly competitive funding environment and...

Everyone knows American universities are more expensive and less impressive than ever. But no one has come up with a plan to fix them. No one... Until now. Let Colleges Fail: The Promise of Creative Destruction in Higher Education is the hard-hitting instruction manual...

Action Research can empower all administrators in higher education to engage more effectively in resolving challenges in colleges and universities. Scholar-practitioners are particularly well poised to impact three defined areas of practice: college students, faculty, and curriculum, teaching and learning. Through these three areas...

This book features a carefully curated collection of articles drawn from the quarterly International Higher Education (IHE). Focused on the international dimensions and trends in higher education, these articles offer valuable insights into the tumultuous events spanning from January 2018 to December 2023. This...

This book examines university teaching to encourage a move away from the singular lens of neoliberalism towards more a pluralistic stance that inspires a healthy diversity of theories and practices.University teaching is dominated by neoliberal cultures of measurement, consumerism and deficit, generating a monocultural...

The Idoma Worldlist Dictionary is a comprehensive compilation of over 3000 words from the Idoma language, written by Okwoli Moses Elaigwu. The dictionary aims to preserve and promote the Idoma language, which is spoken by the Idoma people in Nigeria. The Idoma language is...

This book innovatively explores the policy, practice and pedagogy of community engagement in higher education settings.It contributes to the evaluation of adaptive practice and responses in addressing inequalities further exposed by the pandemic, and the role of higher education institutions within this. By exploring...

Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education examines the relationship between science fiction, education, and social change in the 21st century.Global capitalism is ecologically unsustainable and ethically indefensible; time is running out to alter the course of history...

In this provocative book, Crane investigates the causes and effects of the demoralization of college life, using Harvard University as a case study. He argues that the emphasis on wealth, status, and athletics has eroded traditional academic values and created a culture of conformity...

Haughton's treatise on university education is a fascinating look at the history and development of the Irish university system. It offers insights into the challenges faced by educators and policymakers alike.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part...

This volume contains the speeches given at the 1885 inauguration of Bryn Mawr College, a prestigious women's college in Pennsylvania. The speeches cover a range of topics including the role of women in higher education, the value of the liberal arts, and the importance...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The book presents comprehensive coverage of computer graphics and multimedia concepts in a simple, lucid, and systematic way. It uses C programming language to implement various algorithms explained in the book. The book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on a...

Early college classrooms provide essential opportunities for students to grapple and contend with the racial geographies that shape their lives. Based on a mixed methods study of students' writing in a first-year-writing course themed around racial identities and language varieties at St. John's University,...

The Pain Relief service has taken almost 5 decades since the formation of International Association for study of Pain. In India these services started within a decade after formation of IASP when ISSP was formed in BHU Varanasi. The anaesthesiologist, surgeons & physicians have...

This book is a narrative of her personal and professional journey and of how she has gone about co-creating spaces where democracy can be enacted and individual, institutional, and community transformation can occur.Author: Maria AvilaISBN-10: 1620361043ISBN-13: 9781620361047Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2017Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.90h...

What does student-centered learning look like in real-life classrooms? In this collection, educator Bill Nave and nine award-winning K-12 teachers tell the story of how and why they changed their teaching and redesigned their classrooms in order to "reach every child." They reflect on...

This book offers a rationale for why educators should approach nonfiction literature for children from a critical stance.Author: Vivian Yenika-AgbawISBN-10: 1475842309ISBN-13: 9781475842302Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2018Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d

In a modern Europe, even with 900 years of history and learning behind it, the European Research University faces major challenges on multiple fronts. This book maps out both the present and the long-term issues that the European Research University must now tackle.Author: Guy...

The Toastmaster's Manual is a comprehensive guide to public speaking and leadership skills written by Harold W. Donahue. This book covers all aspects of public speaking, from preparing and delivering speeches to managing meetings and leading teams. It provides practical advice and tips on...